Sentence examples for folly as from inspiring English sources

And it distinguishes it, too, from many of history's marches of folly as well.

In the end, the conclusion of that crime and folly, as well as those of local actors, including the Assad regime, has been that Europe itself is less secure and stable, and the countries we supposedly liberated are a ghastly wasteland.

London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, last night predictably denounced the government's decision to press ahead with the £16bn partial privatisation of the London Underground, threatening court action to protect the capital's travelling public from "a folly as great as the debacle we have seen on the national rail network".

The pros may know more about the market, but they are heir to human folly as well.

It produces hysteria and intellectual folly, as well as the dreadful temptation to turn to the state as the cure for all ills.

It turned to dangerous folly as A.T.F.

Towers, temples, pagodas, pavilions and pyramids have all been favored as follies, as have gazebos, aviaries, fake ruins and free-standing rotundas.

1919 was a very busy year, with Stamper writing songs for the Follies as well as the Midnight Frolic and the Ziegfeld Nine O'Clock Review both of which appeared in a theater on the roof of the New Amsterdam theater.

Yet the sadness of "Folly" seems as much a matter of timing as it is of skewed power dynamics.

But as performed at full gallop by the supremely dapper singer and pianist Steve Ross, Ahh, Paris!" — Stephen Sondheim's brilliant, often overlooked Porter parody from "Follies" — might as well be.

Full of complex ironies and Proustian memory, Follies is as much about the death of the American dream as any Arthur Miller play.